A literal response to a literal manifestation: the beginning of an encounter, and a come-on-in to freshness. By literal I…
I ask myself if freshness as presented here is best approached through religion or spirituality. The answer: neither; freshness is…
There’s a kind of conversation that thrills me, leaves me glowing, stimulates my best thoughts, an interchange that fills up…
There’s a scene in Mozart’s Don Giovanni highlighting the challenge that lying, hiding and pretending represent to our need, individually…
The trickster character common in world mythology has its counterpart in that kind of person who is today deliberately shaking…
What happens when a people lose faith in their civilization? How can their faith be restored? What, first of all,…
Like passing over an open border, many of us shuttle regularly between the mundane and the transcendent worlds. For meeting…
We need stories about encounters and encountering to contemplate and tell each other for information and inspiration. Of course, we…
Encounters are units of intrinsic value, sufficient in and of themselves, needing nothing additional from us. Even unintentional, they occur…
You may have gotten the impression that encounters are all about art appreciation, or exercise, or garden work as here,…